Synopses & Reviews
From privacy concerns regarding Google Street View to surveillance photographyand#8217;s association with terrorism and sexual predators, photography as an art has become complex terrain upon which anxieties about public space have been played out. Yet the photographic threat is not limited to the image alone. A range of social, technological, and political issues converge in these rising anxieties and affect the practice, circulation, and consumption of contemporary public photography today. The Culture of Photography in Public Space collects essays and photographs that offer a new response to these restrictions, the events, and the anxieties that give rise to them.
Synopsis
From privacy concerns regarding Google Street View to photographyand#8217;s association with terrorism and the protection of children from sexual predators, over the past decade photography has become a complex terrain upon which anxieties about public space have been played out. Yet the photographic threat is not limited to the image alone. A range of social, technological and political issues converge in these rising anxieties, and are seriously affecting the practice, circulation and consumption of contemporary public photography today.
Theand#160;Culture of Photography in Public Spaceand#160;critically examines the increasingly fraught culture of photography in Australia and internationally, and analyses its many implications for photographers and members of the public more broadly. The essays and photographs contained in this edited collection offer a new response to these restrictions, the events and anxieties that give rise to them, and the various ways in which photographers, theorists, politicians and members of the public are seeking to come to grips with their own place within this uncertain environment. By situating contemporary debates about photography in public space within a more nuanced account of the medium in its social, historical, political and creative contexts, this book aims to diffuse the photographic threat and provide an opportunity to more fully address the highly contentious issues at hand.
Synopsis
A range of social, technological, and political issues converge in the rising anxieties and affect the practice, circulation, and consumption of public photography today. The Culture of Photography in Public Space collects essays and photographs that offer a new response to these restrictions, the events, and the anxieties that give rise to them.
About the Author
Anne Marsh is professorial research fellow at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne.Melissa Miles is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow and photography historian.Daniel Palmer is associate dean of graduate research and senior lecturer in art, design, and architecture, both at Monash University.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Alfredo Cramerotti
Introduction
Melissa Miles
Chapter 1: Standing on Shifting Ground: Privacy and Photography in Public
Melissa Miles
Chapter 2: Tilt
Simon Terrill
Chapter 3: andldquo;No Credible Photographic Interestandrdquo;: Photography Restrictions and Surveillance in a Time of Terror
Daniel Palmer and Jessica Whyte
Chapter 4: Street View/Interface
Michael Wolf
Chapter 5: Bill Henson and the Polemics of the Nude Child in Photography
Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and Anne Marsh
Chapter 6: The Sleeper and Trafalgar Square
Cherine Fahd
Chapter 7: Criminalizing andldquo;Camera Fiendsandrdquo;: Photography Restrictions in the Age of Digital Reproduction
Jessica Whyte
Chapter 8: In the Event of Amnesia the City will Recall
Denis Beaubois
Chapter 9: The Face in Digital Space
Martyn Jolly
Chapter 10: From Sixteen Google Street Views
Jon Rafman
Chapter 11: Google Street View and Photography in Public Space
Daniel Palmer